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Principal Software Engineer - Developer Connections, Game Release
Riot Games, Inc.
Los Angeles, USA
Full-time
Senior · 8+ years experience
Onsite
USD 229200-319500 yearly / year
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Responsibilities:
- Define Technical Direction: Shape and execute the strategy for Riot’s centralized game release capabilities, balancing speed, safety, and scale.
- Partner with Game Teams: Work directly with game teams to understand real-world release constraints and ensure centralized solutions directly address production needs.
- Build Cross-Team Alignment: Communicate technical vision clearly, establish trust, and help partners evaluate the value and tradeoffs of centralized release systems.
- Guide End-to-End Architecture: Lead architectural strategy across complex surfaces, including clients, game servers, backend services, content, configuration, and publishing workflows.
- Drive Reliable Release Decisions: Champion cross-team technical decisions that maximize release predictability and safety without sacrificing game team velocity.
- Apply Strong Technical & Product Judgment: Navigate ambiguous release challenges by balancing player impact, workflow efficiency, platform constraints, and time-to-market.
- Advise Leadership: Serve as a trusted technical sounding board, linking engineering strategy and technical investments directly to partner adoption.
- Raise Engineering Standards: Elevate technical design, system architecture, operational rigor, and cross-functional collaboration across the domain.
- Resolve High-Impact Issues: Hands-on diagnose complex technical blockers, build context quickly, and partner directly with engineers to drive solutions through to production.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of developing and shipping at least one live-operated game.
- Deep domain expertise in the end-to-end game shipping lifecycle, including production workflows, platform constraints, and live operations challenges.
- Broad release surface experience across game clients, game servers, backend services, configuration, content pipelines, or release orchestration.
- Holistic technical perspective, with a proven ability to connect architectural decisions directly to player experience and operational stability.
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